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Matt Pendo

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Pendo has served as the Chief Operating Officer of Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation and Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation since October 2017 and currently serves as Managing Director, Head of Corporate Development and Capital Markets for Oaktree, which he joined in 2015. Prior to joining Oaktree, Mr. Pendo was at the investment banking boutique of Sandler O’Neill Partners, where he was a managing director focused on the financial services industry. Prior thereto, Mr. Pendo was the chief investment officer of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he was honored with the Distinguished Service Award. There, he built and managed a team of 20 professionals overseeing the Treasury’s $200 billion TARP investment activities across multiple industries including AIG, GM and the banks, and all levels of the capital structure. Mr. Pendo began his career at Merrill Lynch, where he spent 18 years, starting in their investment banking division before becoming managing director of the technology industry group. Subsequently, Mr. Pendo was a managing director at Barclays Capital, first serving as co-head of U.S. Investment Banking and then co-head of Global Industrials group. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University, cum laude and is a board member of SuperValu Inc.